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committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.

Audio isn't just for podcasts and slideshows. The following sites are using audio in new and creative ways to make create unique interactive experiences.

VoiceBase lets you upload audio files and transcribe audio to text automatically online.

An extensive science site with articles, videos and audio featuring the latest research. There is a good 'For Teachers' section with lesson plans and ideas.

Share Your Sounds. Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you've already created.

Use Aviary's music creator to simulate dozens of musical instruments including piano, guitars and drums. Create music loops and patterns for use in Aviary's audio editor (Myna) or as ring tones.

copyright free gallery of over 50,000 high quality images, video clips, and audio files for the educational community. View the gallery online and download free files, without having to register or create an account. Registration is necessary for the uploading of files. Moderators review all content on the site before posting. Registered users can store content in separate online albums. Search the site's resources by keyword, subject, instructional age, or phrase.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

Online Media Converter - Convert Files, Convert Images, Convert Audio, Convert Video and Convert Archives for free

Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. We're a privately held company currently headquartered in Long Island, NY, with team members around the world. Recommemded by Karl Fisch

Making the News 2 (MTN2) is a website designed to introduce students to the world of online media publishing and broadcasting for the 21st century. Teachers may register, doing so will create a homepage on MTN for their school. The teacher may then create student accounts. Students can then login and create articles and programmes which will be submitted to the teacher and if approved published on the school homepage. Well rated articles will be added to the National MTN2 site. Articles may be text and images or they may be video, audio or a sequence of images.

VodBurner Features * Create complete video productions directly from Skype calls. * Record both sides of any Skype video conversation, directly to your hard disk. * Captures at full frame rate and maximum resolution for the best quality possible. * Once the call is complete, generate a single complete video, incorporating both sides of the call, with just a couple of clicks. * Edit the video prior to publishing, using the built in Post-Production Console. * Alter which camera is used at any point (this side, other side or both sides). * Trim portions of the call so they do not appear in the final production. * Add text captions to the final production, with the ability to alter font, color and background. * Add pictures to the final production. * Add background audio to the final production, with professional fading options and volume control. * Generate ASF/WMV files suitable for uploading directly to YouTube and other services. * Upload directly to YouTube for public or private sharing. * Generate video with your choice of aspect ratio and resolution. * Anti-drift technology keeps both sides of the call in sync. * Ideal for podcast interview recording. * Ideal for recording shared desktop sessions.

Search, Save and Master Words * Search from more than 300,000 words and phrases * Multiple usages to clarify the context * Audio, phonetics, meanings, synonyms and antonyms * Save the words to your personal deck and access from anywhere

CatchYouTube enables you to convert YouTube videos into any number of different video and audio formats and then to download these to your computer. It's FREE and very simple to use.

With Google Voice, learners can call in and leave messages that can be emailed, downloaded as .mp3 files, or embedded in web sites using the included html code. Basically, it's a way to create audio recordings, without the need for a computer or mic. Many classrooms and labs are set up with headsets with microphones or laptops with internal mics. Still, many are not. When you think about how many kids have the equipment at home, the chances are even lower. How many kids do you know that have access to a phone? Heck, many of them even have their own cell these days. Enter Google Voice. Let's roll with this and see what we can do.

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below: All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF. All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV. All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA. Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file. MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format. Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.

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